“The Box” weaves some of the greatest horrors of modern Mexican life into an unsettlingly cryptic thriller.

| Nov 10, 2022

The film slides effortlessly from mystery to criminal story to quasi-Greek tragedy, changing registers with subtle alterations of tone.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 7, 2022

This is only notionally a small film, with much weighing on its mind.

| Sep 7, 2021

Part thriller, part gritty exposé, La Caja doesn't always achieve a comfortable balance between the two - but then again, nothing about this film is meant to be comfortable.

| Sep 7, 2021

A canny blend of detective story, political drama and rites of passage vignette, and is the sort of film that comes across as so simple and direct that it's easy to miss how meticulously conceived and constructed it is.

| Sep 7, 2021

An unflinching account of human lives rendered disposable by greed and corruption.

| Sep 7, 2021

Vigas's direction is efficient, pedestrian, entirely built for purpose. But he manages to keep the audience on-board throughout the tale's twists and turns...

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 7, 2021